Quote, "This is the actuator
arm, which moves the drive heads around the disk surface. I've removed it from
it's assembly, so that the carefully coiled wires can be clearly seen - when
these wires have a current passed through them, the magnetic field created by
the extremely powerful permanent magnets I mentioned before causes the coil to
be pushed or pulled back and forth between the magnets - this is how the drive
heads are positioned to read and write on the platters as they spin."

Quote, "For $47 this LCD could outstrip all
its competition with just its ease of use and its great software support, but it
doesn't stop there. I hope I've shown you how useful both the keypad interface
and GPO's are, and when you combine the inclusion of these features with the
quality of service Matrix Orbital provide, this really is a must buy if you're
wanting something in the LCD department."

Quote, "If you are a
hardcore overclocker that’s the motherboard for you, both the Vcore and DDR
voltages can be increased to high values, 2.200V and 3.200V respectively. The
motherboard stability is also excellent, although the performance improvement
showed by KT333 is not impressing."

Quote, "I was able to advance the board up to 166 MHz before it became unstable.
I originally used the Mushkin High Performance PC2100 DDR rev. 3 DIMM, but for
some reason the board wouldn’t boot beyond 146 MHz with that particular memory.
When I used a generic stick that worked fine at 160 MHz+, the board booted right
up. 166 MHz is a very impressive feat with any motherboard."

Quote, "For the consumer, the
bigger question is whether the A7V333 is worth the upgrade from any existing
platform as well as whether there are any new bugs to watch out for. The
answers are yes and yes ......"

Quote, "You all might remember Jerry Sanders´ statements at the
conference call last week. Well, AMD Germany elaborated on that a little further
today. AMD in fact wants to bring the Athlon XP to lower price regions. But,
according to their spokesman Jan Gütter here, there are no plans to outright
cancel the Duron in 2002." In German.